> WARSAW, April 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Export-Import Bank and U.S International Development Finance Corporation may lend up to $4 billion to Orlen Synthos Green Energy’s project to deploy small modular reactors (SMR) in Poland.
> The EXIM Bank may lend up to $3 billion, and DFC may lend up to $1 billion to build and deploy the first two SMRs to be designed by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Orlen Synthos Green Energy said in a release after signing letters of intent with the U.S. institutions.
> Poland’s biggest refiner PKN Orlen and chemicals company Synthos plan to deploy Poland’s first small nuclear reactors by 2030 to supplement the country’s shift to nuclear power to reduce its carbon emissions and gradually phase out coal.
> “We will present a total of 20 locations by the end of the year,” Orlen chief executive Daniel Obajtek told a press conference.
> He named seven preliminary locations, including Ostoleka, Dabrowa Gornicza, Warsaw and Krakow.
> “I believe we will build this reactor, we will build tens of reactors in Poland but not only in Poland,” Obajtek said, adding that he believed the first investment would kick off in 2026-27.
> The government last year chose U.S. company Westinghouse Electric Co for the country’s flagship nuclear power plant in northern Poland.
These BWRX-300 designs are pretty interesting. Because they’re smaller than traditional boiling light water designs, they can rely on passive circulation instead of needing active pumping of water to keep them cooled. They say the reactor can cool itself for about a week without any intervention or electricity.
Unlike most other SMR designs you hear about, this one is under active construction right now (in Canada), and is based on a scaling down of proven technologies from a company that’s been making traditional reactors for a long time rather than more speculative technologies that are still in the regulatory approval stages.
Russian propaganda websites tomorrow: US funding dirty bomb research in Poland, in violation of non-proliferation-treaties!
Sigh..
> GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
That’s a combination of company names I didn’t expect to see together
Based US 😍👍
Can this one create hydrogen from what would otherwise be waste heat?
I’m worried about the currently government of Poland, because it can use the money to make a propaganda instead of build the reactor.
I hope that $ 4 bln is tied with extremely strict financial supervision from US, otherwise it will result in a grand total of zero reactors being build.
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> WARSAW, April 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Export-Import Bank and U.S International Development Finance Corporation may lend up to $4 billion to Orlen Synthos Green Energy’s project to deploy small modular reactors (SMR) in Poland.
> The EXIM Bank may lend up to $3 billion, and DFC may lend up to $1 billion to build and deploy the first two SMRs to be designed by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Orlen Synthos Green Energy said in a release after signing letters of intent with the U.S. institutions.
> Poland’s biggest refiner PKN Orlen and chemicals company Synthos plan to deploy Poland’s first small nuclear reactors by 2030 to supplement the country’s shift to nuclear power to reduce its carbon emissions and gradually phase out coal.
> “We will present a total of 20 locations by the end of the year,” Orlen chief executive Daniel Obajtek told a press conference.
> He named seven preliminary locations, including Ostoleka, Dabrowa Gornicza, Warsaw and Krakow.
> “I believe we will build this reactor, we will build tens of reactors in Poland but not only in Poland,” Obajtek said, adding that he believed the first investment would kick off in 2026-27.
> The government last year chose U.S. company Westinghouse Electric Co for the country’s flagship nuclear power plant in northern Poland.
These BWRX-300 designs are pretty interesting. Because they’re smaller than traditional boiling light water designs, they can rely on passive circulation instead of needing active pumping of water to keep them cooled. They say the reactor can cool itself for about a week without any intervention or electricity.
Unlike most other SMR designs you hear about, this one is under active construction right now (in Canada), and is based on a scaling down of proven technologies from a company that’s been making traditional reactors for a long time rather than more speculative technologies that are still in the regulatory approval stages.
Russian propaganda websites tomorrow: US funding dirty bomb research in Poland, in violation of non-proliferation-treaties!
Sigh..
> GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy
That’s a combination of company names I didn’t expect to see together
Based US 😍👍
Can this one create hydrogen from what would otherwise be waste heat?
I’m worried about the currently government of Poland, because it can use the money to make a propaganda instead of build the reactor.
I hope that $ 4 bln is tied with extremely strict financial supervision from US, otherwise it will result in a grand total of zero reactors being build.